One of the suspects in the murder of two foreign film journalists in Quezon City has been arrested by police and was found to be an employee of the couple.

Supt. Gerardo Ratuita, chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD-CIDU), identified the suspect as Danilo Jovoc Sr., 47.

Ratuita said the suspect was subjected to inquest proceedings on Monday and charged with murder and robbery before the Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office.

The police official said Jovoc is one of the suspects who robbed and killed Fil-Canadian Alexis Tioseco, 29, and his live-in partner, Slovenian Nica Bohinc, 30, at their home at 39 Times St., Barangay West Triangle, Quezon City Tuesday last week.

Jovoc was said to be working as a driver for the truck hauling business of the Tiosecos who was under contract for Total Gas. QCPD-CIDU operatives arrested Jovoc at the garage-office of the couple in Taguig City Saturday afternoon.

However, Ratuita said the suspect has remained silent regarding his participation in the crime and refused to give the whereabouts of his companions.

Ratuita said a witness has identified Jovoc as one of the suspects who got out of Tioseco's Ford Lynx (CPW-329) car on West Avenue, Barangay West Triangle that same night the crime took place.

Ratuita said investigators were able to match the cartographic sketch of the suspect to the list of the employees of the company and found Jovoc to match the sketch.

According to the couple’s maid, Magdalena Patpat, the suspects stole two laptops, three mobile phones, one Rolex watch, two digital cameras, two video cameras, one iPod, two luggages, P20,000 in cash, and an undetermined amount of dollars.

In the meantime, police continue to search for the other suspects including Criselda Dayag, who had been working as a maid of the victims for a month.

Patpat, who has been working as a maid for the couple for three years, recounted that at around 10:40 p.m. on Sept. 1 she was watching television when Dayag asked permission to go out to buy something at a store.

Dayag returned immediately accompanied by three armed men who hogtied and gagged Patpat and then locked her inside the maid’s quarters.

The maid then heard the couple arrive at the house and a commotion followed, during which she heard shots fired.

The suspects left aboard the couple’s car which was later found by police abandoned along West Avenue, Barangay West Triangle that same night.

Online information cited Tioseco as a faculty member at the Arts Department of the University of Asia and the Pacific, and editor-in-chief of Criticine, an online journal of Southeast Asian cinema.

Bohinc was a freelance film journalist and programmer who worked as European Content Provider for SEA Images, a website focusing on film collaborations between Europe and Asia, founded by the Asian-European Foundation.